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I like that decal. Very intricate looking.

Have you thought about adding a flag or banner to it?

Love the look of the turret. That decal really makes it work.

Turret is looking badass! The markings all look great . Good work on killing Farsight... those time traveling Tau have no place in M31

 GiraffeX wrote:
Vallejo gloss by any chance? Mines the same but it looks fine when its dried.

I'll give it another go with a test piece then, as mine always seems to turn out blueish for some reason.

Thanks guys!

 Snrub wrote:
I like that decal. Very intricate looking.

Have you thought about adding a flag or banner to it?

I will be adding a trio of aerials to the turret at a later date at the very least, chances are one of these will be a banner of sorts.

Nice. Tanks with banners look awesome.

Sexy freehand and decals.

Me freehand?



I've got a few Bretonnian banners lying about somewhere that will go nicely with some brass rods and Elysian decals.

Oh feth. I knew if I wrote Freehand that would happen! (I was like, well if I write freehand that covers me skimming incase he did that, and if not it's a compliment to his decal ability.)

NOPE. :(

I'm doing a quick side project while also working on the Baneblade: a 200 pt Kill Team made up of Skitarii, because I always like killing Tau in new and exciting ways.

Currently I'm building..

Skitarii Rangers (9) - Alpha with Arkhan's Divinator, Transuranic Arquebus and Arc rifle

Sydonian Dragoon - phosphor serpenta

198 pts
10 models
Deadline in two weeks.

On the Heresy front, I'm looking at giving my Adepticon 2014 exclusive model, as done by Victoria Lamb, a nice and big banner so she can join the Auxilia command squad alongside the volkite veteran, grenade launcher veteran and a random scrub with vox, as they await the arrival of their commanding officer.

Subbed, maybe I'll be inspired to start working on my stuff.

Haven't forgotten about this one, I was working on the Skitarii, but as fun as they are to build, they're such a pain in the arse to paint!

So instead, after receiving a padded envelope from both Victoria Lamb and Raging Heroes last week, I decided to instead focus on my Tactical Command Squad, which is now complete model-wise, but still woefully WIP:



The three veterans, one with a meltagun, a Vexilarius (Adepticon 2014 grab bag model with a Bretonnian banner) and another veteran with a Volkite charger:



The banner is festooned with oath of moment declarations, mainly to cover up the missing bits of banner and because I like to think that the Rogue Trader also likes the idea of making these oaths before the battle commences.

The Strategos (Adepticon 2015 grab bag model) and the Proclaimator (Raging Heroes giant):



I'm glad I haven't gone overboard with the Raging Heroes miniatures for this project.

Great looking stuff here - figs n fluff....... Am so subbed !!!!

Bit in the dumps for silly reasons and whenever that happens I get the urge to cut up stuff and build or convert something. In this case..



A standard bearer, or a Vexilla, for my Lasrifle Section. The pose is a bit derpy, seeing as I was using Warlord's USMC arms and a head from Statuesque, the original idea was for a veteran pointing into the distance, but after noticing the vacancy in the section I dug out a spare banner and stuck that to her instead.

And here's the section as a whole:



The black blob with the red in the middle is the troop leader, whom I decided to give a spare Galvanic rifle from the Skitarii boxed set, to make her stand out from the file and rank scrubs. Pity that troop leaders don't have access to fancier rifles, just melee weapons and pistols, not something you want to give to a strictly ranged formation. Also present is the medic, good old Doc Dorden, he'll be permanently attached to this section.

Right then, enough moping, I need to get some actual painting done instead of just adding to the pile of shame.

Still chipping away at stuff, though work has been keeping me occupied like no tomorrow. But on the bright side, I'm going to need the money when next weekend rolls around..

Oh yes, next weekend I'm going to be getting Knight number four! The plan is to build a Knight Warden (with chainsword, the thunderfist is going onto the Knight Errant I'm almost done with) and make that my HQ, so the noble I've set aside for that spot will soon have a place of her own.

That leaves me with the Invincible a.k.a. the Cerastus-Castigator a.k.a. the Dreamforge Crusader without a noble to pilot it. Here's an older picture of it along with the pilot, who has since made a transition to the base of my Knight Paladin.



So, a new side-quest begins.. to find a suitable miniature to represent the Knight-noble in charge of this suit of armour. Suggestions are more than welcome and models of both gender are fine by me. I think at this stage I may need to insert a sausage into the mix before the lads get upset.

Here are the current nobles who are or soon will be gracing the bases of the Knights:

Knight Paladin's Scion Martial Salena DuChess


Knight Errant Scion Arbalester Valentina DuChess


Knight Warden (Seneschal) Baroness-Militant DuChess

An excellent mix of model ranges in this blog BrookM. The work on the Knight is my favourite, but your tanks are up there too. I am interested to see where this goes, best of luck.

Do you find the Tamiya weathering kit easy to use?

In between work I did some.. work on my models. All are still in varying degrees of WIP.



F.L.T.R.

Baroness DuChess, future HQ of my Questoris Knights and soon to be proud owner of a Knight Warden. I found the pile of skulls really annoying at first, but now, I think they suit the character and how I envision her within her little fighting group, which is mostly made up of family. She strikes me as someone who will take out anyone who even thinks about hurting one of her family members.

Second, an as of yet unnamed Strategos for my Tactical Command Squad. Still need to do the pistol, tidy her up a bit and give the face a wash. Just like the Rogue Trader she's wearing a proto-Imperial Navy uniform. What can I say, I love me some costume porn.

Last, this pompous prick. Can't remember the name of the company I got it from, but I do remember that it is yet another company that got caught up in a highly successful Kickstarter that it has a lot of trouble properly fulfilling. This guy will be an objective marker, he's certainly full enough of himself to believe that he's important.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Do you find the Tamiya weathering kit easy to use?

It's been quite a while since I last used them, from what I remember, they're easy to use and apply, plus the Tamiya site has a few handy and to the point videos on how to use them.

Did some more painting today and yesterday.

Yesterday I did some more work on these:



The Veletaris needed some touching up, while the Baroness is now more or less done, all she needs now is a Knight to pilot! The Centurion with a pair of lightning claws is still a WIP and I'm not sure what to do with her just yet, either I'm taking the plunge and start buying Heresy era sets of power armour or I'll think of something else to use as space marine stand-ins. Last is the Strategos, finally done and awaiting the rest of her command squad. A finely sculpted mini like this one really makes me wish I had better painting skills to really do such a gorgeous model justice.

Today I've sat down and powered through my Veletaris, so they're finally done, aside from the bases of nine of the chaps, but feth it, I'll save that for when I've also done the ten Auxilia flamers.



I decided to give every man in the squad a blue pauldron with a red line running down the middle, to denote their veterency and to distinguish them from a future second squad who will be rank and file Veletaris.

Next up.. Hopefully a Knight Warden! That is if the local GW rep deems the non-GW stores worthy of receiving them this week.

Failing that.. I'll bite down and power through the command squad.


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Ah, also, found a "proper" ponce for my Knight-Cerastus:



He's from Freebooter's Fate and can be found here! From my pile of shame! I originally bought him as a central-American royal or rich big wig of sorts, the corrupt kind propped up by the CIA or American government for games of 7TV.

So, got my Knight Warden today, along with the codex and datacards, so..



And first thing I did when I sat down was..



The armoured cover on the fist will feature (or at least I'm going to try to..) yellow-black warning stripes, like the power gloves of the older editions. The Errant will also be the lucky recipient of an ack-ack mount. Because nothing says "I love flyers" more than a Knight with tank-hunters.

I've also stuck together the skeleton for the Warden by now, sanded and primed the large base and I'm going to leaf through the codex now so I can decide on the heraldry and carapace markings of my baroness.

Tomorrow I'm going to prime the skeleton, give it a good coat of leadbelcher, wash it black and drybrush it with leadbelcher and silver, presto! Knight 50% done!

Today I worked a lot on my Warden and a little bit on my Errant. The Errant power fist is mostly painted by now as well, I just need to prime the top armour plate yellow and see about those safety stripes.

I did most of the work today on the Warden though, managed to prime and get the skeleton (aside from the smaller leg pistols and smoke stacks) + base done, leaving me with just the armour plates..



So, over the next few days I'm going to paint up the armour plates one by one, apply decals where necessary and then glue them in place, slowly dressing the model up as I progress.

Good luck with the warning stripes. I always shy away from those, even on my Iron Warriors.

What right arm weapon are you going for on the Warden?

The Warden will be packing an Avenger gatling cannon on the other arm, along with a rocket pod.

As for the stripes, I'm going to take my time with those on Sunday, probably carefully sketch them out first with a pencil before committing brush to model.

sweet way to get stripes on a large area sharp is to use masking tape to mark out the stripes. Temper the stickiness first though by sticking the stripes of tape to you jeans and then onto the model so it wont damage te already laid paint

This stuff is looking great! I can't believe how quickly you got that thing put together. I'll second the tape idea - but use blue painter's masking tape - it's less adhesive. Easily and readily available from Hardware stores

Many thanks chaps, I've been freehanding the safety stripes, seeing as I don't have tape small enough for the job at hand.

Meanwhile on Namek.. I'm still chipping away at the Warden, slowly dressing her up as I go, still got quite a ways to go before its done.

However, I did manage to finally complete a proper Knight Errant:





Only two items missing from this suit right now: the pilot, who I still need to paint and the armoured plate that goes onto the Thundah-Stroike fist.

Though it does feel good to get something done every once in a while, especially a model as rewarding as this one. She may not see many fights, but at least she looks pretty on the shelf along with the others.

Stumbled on this randomly today, loving the progress and the time you take to do up specific knight pilots for each titan - gave me a cool idea for my own.

Keep up the work, hope to see an update soon.

I haven't forgotten this, not at all, honest!

I've been working on a new Executioner and chipping away at the Warden, I've just been awfully busy with work these last few weeks.

Nice 30K. Those Solar Auxilia are sweet models, and your conversions are inspiring

Awww shucks Kurnost!

Okay, official update time and all that.



I've been swamped by work these last few weeks and while I did pick up the brush every now and again, it wasn't exactly a lot to show off, so I've been saving it up for one big post to soothe my guilty conscience and all that. There've been several things that I've worked on, including..



Deathdealer, my second Executioner. Not super-happy with the colour of the plasma coils, I was experimenting with that oxide technical paint over Temple Guard blue, because according to a chap at the store it would make for the perfect glow effect. Well, it didn't quite turn out as planned, I may repaint it with the three greens and white that I also used for the first one when I get around to it, along with that annoying search light, but for the time being it is done. But other than that, I'm happy with how it turned out, with its own icon on each flank (leftover US star from DUST) along with the soon to be placed Elysian decal from that FW decal sheet on the red band. There's also a small maker plate of its own on the back and a pair of warning on the back to denote that this tank is dangeresque. The "Deathdealer" decals on the turret are also from DUST, so there's something good that came from that mess after all! All in all, it's good to have a small squadron of these clanking about, at least now I can not only spam six balls of exploding plasma (that don't get hot) per shooting phase, they're also BS4, because screw the 40k rules, 30k sometimes does it better!

Next up, part of the Tactical Command Squad, which is almost done, aside from the standard bearer and some bits and bobs on the vox operator. I still need to apply some decals to the banner, which will probably be of the Elysian variety to tie in with the rest of the force. It's an odd mix of Minervan Colonial Guard and proto-Imperial Navy / Imperial Fleet uniforms, to denote that my warlord, the Rogue Trader, isn't above recruiting from worlds that have seen the light. As mentioned before, four out of five models are from Victoria Lamb's range, including two GenCon exclusives that she made available to us in limited quantities.



Oh well, anyway, the lass in the middle is Leftenant Cassandra Hyde-Beauchamp, adopted daughter of the warlord and perhaps a bit hungry for glory herself. Why does she adopt though? May have something to do with her special condition that I use as the perfect excuse to give a non-Astartes model Eternal Warrior. She's one of the two con-exclusives and simply a gorgeous model, as I mentioned before, makes me wish I was a better painter so I could really do such a lovely sculpt the justice it deserves. She's armed with a plasma pistol and power weapon, options that are perhaps a bit wasted on a cheap HQ unit (75 pts for the squad with standard, vox and once per game artillery strike), but you'll never know when she's got to get stuck in with something and it happens to challenge her to a.. challenge.

I've also plugged away at the Knight Warden, which still isn't finished, but we're slowly getting there. Added on the face plate, the tilting plate, both arms, the right shoulder guard and started work on the remaining plates of armour, which just seem to take forever for some reason. I've also dug a smaller plastic shield out of the bits box, which I guess is from a Space Marine vehicle or the like, which I'll be attaching to the Reaper arm joint in due time as another piece of gear that's going to be covered in victory icons and whatnot, with this suit of armour belonging to the leader of the Lance, or the Baroness, I figure I may as well show off her skills and accomplishments with some extra bling.



Next up? Still need to finish that Baneblade for starters!

I've also been giving my Dreamforge Crusader a lot of looking over, that one will receive some updating as well further down the road. I've had my fun with the Cerastus Castigator pattern, but I find it sadly too lacking in application, with just one ranged weapon (twin-linked at that!) which nine times out of ten blows away the foe before it can be assaulted, wasting a perfectly good Knight. Instead, I'm looking into arm options for it, so I can give it a massive flame cannon and turn it into a Cerastus Acheron, for which I already have the comically oversized chainsword and the two chin-mounted cannons can perfectly double as the twin-linked heavy bolter the suit also comes with. I'm also looking into modifying the top carapace to some degree, it needs a hatch or something along those lines, I've always found this distracting about the model, it not having a clear access point for the pilot.

Incoming crack? Any day now a pack of FW Volkite Chargers and another squad of Victorian FemCadians with universal arms should be coming in, these gals will be my second Veletaris Storm Section, which will be a cheaper option than getting another one from FW, plus I really loved how the Volkite toting veteran from my command section turned out, so I had to do an entire squad of these badasses whom I will probably dub the "Widows" or the like, due to losing their husbands at the hands of the Orks during the liberation of their world.

Added bonus is that I can more easily keep both squads apart, where the "official" squad will act as the personal guard of the warlord (think of them as the hoary veterans who have been with her since Saturn) and the "Widows" being a new addition of veteran fighters.

Also, with the Dracosan out of stock for the time being I'm looking at alternate vehicle kits to fill that niche, especially one that looks nice and big (but not oversized), while also packing a Demolisher cannon or the like.

+ + + FLUFF DUMP + + +

Bit of fluff regarding the massive influx of non-FW models, especially the Minervan Colonial Guard. As mentioned above, a Rogue Trader wouldn't be above replenishing the ranks with soldiers from newly liberated or discovered worlds that embrace the Imperial Truth willingly. Of course, these soldiers would be nowhere near as well-trained or well-equipped as the Solar Auxilia from Saturn and other places that have adopted this template, but got to make do with what's at hand, especially when resupply could take forever to either reach you, or you have to trek all the way back to more established Imperial sectors, which is in itself something of a crapshoot, seeing as the Crusade will first and foremost cater to the Legiones Astartes, because they are the main force of arms in the Crusade.

While most Rogue Traders are simply tasked with scouting ahead of the main exploration fleets, or sweeping sectors that the fleets have bypassed or maybe missed, I like to think that my little lady wants to do a bit more than that. She's been around for a long, long time now and has been hankering to explore the void ever since we shot monkeys into outer space. While she has been given a complete cohort of Solar Auxilia from the Solar System no less, over time, as she went deeper and deeper into the unknown, coming across all sorts of miracles and horrors, the attrition rate would catch up to her sooner or later, forcing her to replenish the ranks where she can.

The latest and biggest source of new bodies, the newly discovered world of Minerva, which was suffering heavily from ork attacks. It was a costly campaign, but the Rogue Trader and her forces managed to tip the balance of these battles enough to see the orks exterminated, though at a heavy cost in both men and materials. So, as the world accepted the Imperial Truth (small price to pay for getting rid of the Ork hordes), a recruitment and resupply effort also got underway, to replenish the ranks of the cohort.

Amongst these volunteers to join her cause would be the "Widows" (working title and all that), brave women who took up arms against the orks after they lost their husbands and family in the war. With nothing left to keep them bound to their own world of birth, many signed up to fill up the ranks and see some cosmic horrors before they met their maker.

Another unit I am working on will be a lasrifle section made up of Minervan Colonial Guard, represented by Victoria Lamb's female Arcadian Guard, armed with regular lasguns. The section leader carries a fancier spare rifle from the Skitarii sprues, along with a bright red beret.

Only problem with all of this, two of the chaps over at the store find that using these models as stand-ins for Solar Auxilia is unacceptable, as they look nowhere near as well-armoured or equipped as the models they're standing in for. But screw them guys.

 BrookM wrote:

Only problem with all of this, two of the chaps over at the store find that using these models as stand-ins for Solar Auxilia is unacceptable, as they look nowhere near as well-armoured or equipped as the models they're standing in for. But screw them guys.

Aaaaaand that would matter if they were the ones making the army, so I second that last sentence: Screw them guys.

Also, loving the officer. Rather than the drab colors so often used in Guard armies it's cool to see something stand out - and again, gave me an idea for something of my own.

So, Steam Summer Sale!

Well, so far, nothing too bad has happened yet. Not that I really had a budget to begin with!

In other news, first part of my new Veletaris Storm Section arrived this morning, in form of a pack of Forge World Volkite Chargers, plus I still had enough parts left over from other projects to build half a squad:



These five will be regular old scrubs, other batch will include a sergeant and a nuncio vox of sorts. Not 100% done with these yet, they still need to be based and I need to fix the stocks of their weapons, they're not as nice as the one I had left over from the Veletaris set.

So, now I'm awaiting the arrival of a new squad of Victorian Arcadians and a set of beret heads to go with the remainder of the chargers.

While we're waiting on those, the quest to find a suitable not-Dracosan continues.